Question

i've been wrapping my head around to why burke and leafs signed hanson and had him play with the leafs as they did was the Irwin wasting a year on their contracts. why was the same not done for stalberg and bozak.
is it to see what they got?
show them what it's like in the nhl?
either i picture hanson as a 3rd/4th liner and Irwin as the same.

IIRC Bozak was not given time at the end of the season because of an injury and Stalberg I'm not entirely sure about...... as for why they did it for Hanson and Irwin, I think it was just to give them a feel for the game and so on.

Bozak was injured.
Stalberg was also injured and they didn't want to burn a year of his contract.
Hanson (and Irwin for that matter) was more of a project. They knew he was raw and probably less likely to demand a large raise after the season. Bozak on the other hand, who has an extremely incentive-laden contract, was more likely to have an immediate impact and thus insistence that his performance be reflected in his contract. Imagine if Bozak was up after the season he had, despite it being short, based on his numbers and play he definitely would have wanted a raise and/or a one-way deal.

He's actually an intern trying to figure out the chemical properties of whatever the hell it was Cliff Fletcher was drinking when he brought in Frogren and Finger. Two players no better than the first letter of their last names.

i've read the cba. i was just wondering why they would burn a year on the contracts when they could have just sent them to the marlies. like they did with stalberg. just doesn't work out why they would want to burn that year for a couple of games. who knows why they did this. it could be to get out of the contract faster if the people doesn't plan out.

i've read the cba. i was just wondering why they would burn a year on the contracts when they could have just sent them to the marlies. like they did with stalberg. just doesn't work out why they would want to burn that year for a couple of games. who knows why they did this. it could be to get out of the contract faster if the people doesn't plan out.